Is Paradise on a single level, or are its ranks and dwellings varied in honor?

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The questioner : His EminenceThe Shaykh : Is Paradise on a single level, or are its ranks and dwellings varied in honor?

The Shaykh : Paradise is not uniform; rather, it is according to deeds, as Allah Blessed and Exalted is He said:

And for all are degrees from what they have done

وَلِكُلٍّ دَرَجَاتٌ مِمَّا عَمِلُوا

[Al-An'am 6:132]

And as He (peace and blessings be upon him) said:

There are one-hundred degrees in Paradise which Allah has prepared for those who carry on Jihad in His Cause

إن في الجنة مائة درجة أعدها الله للمجاهدين في سبيله

Sahih al-Bukhari 7423

So people vary in their deeds, and among the perfection of the justice of Allah Mighty and Majestic is that they vary in reward. However, the pleasure of Paradise, in general, is:

as no eye has ever seen, nor an ear has ever heard nor a human heart can ever think of.

ما لا عين رأت، ولا أذن سمعت، ولا خطر على قلب بشر

Sahih al-Bukhari 7498

Read the mention of the dwellings of the Gardens at the end of Surat al-Rahman, where He said:

But for he who has feared the position of his Lord are two gardens -

وَلِمَنْ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهِ جَنَّتَانِ

[Ar-Rahman 55:46]

Then He said after that:

And below them both [in excellence] are two [other] gardens -

وَمِنْ دُونِهِمَا جَنَّتَانِ

[Ar-Rahman 55:62]

And these two Gardens, the first and the last, are also varied according to the deeds of people, just as the Fire, may Allah protect us and you from it, has levels, some lower than others and more severe in punishment than others. And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) informed:

That the least of people in punishment in the Fire is the one who is in shallow fire, and upon him are two slippers from which his brain boils

أن أهون الناس عذاباً في النار من هو في ضحضاح من نارٍ وعليه نعلان يغلي منهما دماغه

I seek refuge in Allah, yes.

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